INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESL THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS icase and enforce the health laws concerning it. Mind you, they MOST DASTARDLY DEED recovery. was slight chance for her KNOW these things. What do they do IN COUNTRY Blackduck, He returned to AND BORDER BUDGET 15 was miles away. That Perhaps the diairman of the board is stubborn and mulish. (Continued from page 1.) that Thursday night, and from He wont move because he never did move in such a case. Or perhaps Publishers of the Official County Proceedings time until we arrived the wounds he does get the town board to talk it over, and they sit around water, shaved himself, and then didn't even have an antiseptic discussing the things afraid of spending the money needed to get turned to me. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls Minn as Second-claw Matter short dressing. It will be nothing a doctor as, health officer,this in spite of the fact that they are ordered "When I recovered conscious, 1 of a miracle if there is no infection." INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY ness he was standing some distance to do so by the law. They adjourn, and for a few days chew away. I was tied up against GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager the matter over—but do nothing. Experienced woodsmen attempted tree. He looked at me and the What is the result? All the children in the neighborhood are of to take up the trail then pulled out the revolver and exposed and, naturally, the epidemic is on. Then, to cover up their the would-be murderer, but owing commenced to* shoot. I don't stubbornness or dilatoriness, they say, "Well, the kids should have to the many cross tracks No one need go hungry or "blind pig" for a living in this city know how many times he fired. it anyway." made by searchers, were unable when there are so many good jobs going begging at such good I fainted when the first bullet to follow it for any distance, struck me." wages. What should the people of that township do? Arrest the whole out then a heavy rain blotted The plucky victim made no board for a misdemeanor under the law. They and they alone are But what little trail there was. complaint of pain, although attending The beautiful Indian summer days and nights, after such an criminally responsible for the epidemic. moral the authorities maintain he physicians said she must unusually unfavorable summer, are very much appreciated and it Then the parents of every child that has caught the disease pervert could not have escaped be suffering agonies. She had is hoped they will continue at least six weeks. from the first case should sue every member of that town board, from the region without told her story. There was no ^collectively and severally, for damages, putting the figure high. means of transportation and more to say. Only two criminal cases for trial at the present general term they have satisfied themselves For the loss of time from school, the detrimental effects upon the Doctors Operate. of court for Beltrami county and both of these are for timber trespass. that he did not escape by any |children (which time only can reveal), and the discomfort and acItual E. A. Freeman, superintendent Not a single prosecution for assault, robbery or larceny. Are highway. They believe he is in loss to the parents of the peace and comfort in their homes of schools in district No. 1, was the densely wooded territory adjacent you willing to concede that the absence of saloons has anything \cannot be measured in money. So the damages should be high. among the first to reach the to the scene of the crime to do with the situation? Think it over.—Bemidji Sentinel. If every resident in every township in Koochiching county scene from Grand Rapids. He and a dragnet without loop holes would proceed in this manner against the town board of their had with him Doctors Hursh and has been spread. Everything points for an unusually prosperous time for this township everytime a contagious disease is neglected by the board, Binet of Grand Rapids. They arrived And they promise justice when city and county this winter if workmen enough can be secured at at the Lunens' home at these officials would sooi^ get busy and do their duty. he is captured. the gqod wages offered to do the work already planned, in the noon and operated immediately. Don't let these officials off easily. See that they do what the woods, on the new railroads being built, as well as on the large One bullet had entered the left law instructs them to do. Have a health officer for each and every building to be erected for the Insulation company in this- city. side of the skull and passed out township in the county. Keep at them until they do. And when he through the left eye, completely is appointed (and he must be a doctor) see that he is called in every THE HIGH COST OF PROHIBITION. destroying the sight. The other suspicious case. See that the law is rigidly enforced. A town board lodged under the temple, having has a big range ^)f authority to spend money for anything and passed completely through the A Seattle judge rebuked the district attorney because no cases everything to protect your children from these contagious diseases. girl's head. were ready and the court was idle two days. The district attorney The operation was performed, There is no need for epidemics. If you have one then your town replied that there were no cases to get ready. When asked why, successfully and within a short board is responsible. Don't hesitate to put the whole load of that he had to admit that work for the criminal court had fallen off time the victim regained consciousness. responsibility on them. Protect your children. about 50 per cent since the prohibition law went into effect. Of At her bedside were course there were some bootlegging cases. (We mention this to save her sisters and parents, Mr, and anyone who is opposed to prohibition the trouble of informing us.) Mrs. L. E. Dahl of Warba, Minn. But of other crime there was a real dearth. It's dreadful the way It was to one of her sisters that prohibition cuts into some home industries, including wife-beating, she related the tale. In the meantime the authorities, desertion, assault, rape, and murder.—Collier's Weekly. headed by Sheriff Charles Gunderson, had scoured the vicinity. PROTECT OUR YOUNG WOMEN TEACHERS. At the spot where the one night camp had been made they The story of the horrible assault upon a rural school teacher found a- razor, notebook and an in Itasca county last week has aroused the wrath of the whole north envelope. The latter was addressed, country. Sturdy homesteaders by the hundreds and men wise in the the authorities say, to trackless paths of the forest are scouring the counrty for miles in a "Mr. Dawson, Bena, Minn." all directions to catch the fiend. What the notebook contained GEO. P. WATSON Supposing this man is caught and receives the utmost limit they refused to state, but admit Candidate for Clerk of Court of the law. Or even supposing that in their wrath and indignation it contains clues by which they hope to locate the degenerate. the first who sight this man hold summary court and visit the extreme He has resided in the county Superintendent Freeman returned penalty of death. What would that avail so far as the injury continuously for the past fifteen late Fridey iiight from and shock, physical and mental, are concerned, to this young girl years. the scene of the crime in Good upon the threshold of life? Nothing. The above illustration was published in the "School Educator'* Hope township,' near Raund lake. with He is well acquainted Is it not a matter of greater moment that these hopeful and with the' article whibh Wa!s reprinted in the Press Of "It is hardly possible to realize a it aspiring young women, dedicating themselves to one of the highest last week, on "County School Health Supervision." It illustrates what a dastardly crime has callings of our land, be more thoroughly protected from even He has, always worked vigorously a simple method whereby our rural teachers may safely examine been committed," he declared. the possibility of such assault and injury, the effects of which must for its best interests. "Why, the girl, for she was nothing the throats of children without ri3k of the child coughing last their entire lifetime more, graduated from the contagion into their face. If elected he will take personal Can it not be possible for our county superintendents of Grand Rapids high school normal work jand continual care of the schools in these northern regions which are so sparsely populated training department last June. of office and will give the best She attended the teachers' institute and remote, to send young men to the most isolated schools service to all its patrons. here last week and started Would it not be better still to effect the consolidated school on her duties this week. She had system throughout the entire region? This event itself is the strongest taug htbut three days. possible argument for such consolidation. THE BETTER THING. "What action to safeguard the GRAND THEATRE If this cannot be done in every case and young women must girls and women teaching in our be sent to such places and be in imminent danger of such foul FRIDAY, SEPT. 29 rural schools will come of this I assault, why do not our county institutes, in addition to the many cannot say. Most of them are other matters of instruction, train th'ese young women in the use It is better to lose with a coiiscience clean girls' who are used to handling of a good reliable Colt's automatic? fire arms and they certainly Than to lose by a trick unfairj "Here, the Visitors Told It would seem that the splendid nerve and courage that will should go armed after this. Not Themselves, Was the enable a girl to go far into the depths of the lonely forest to teach only armed, but ready to use the It is better to fail and to know you've been, Real West." the few children of the homesteaders would also enable her to use weapons at the slightest provocation. Whatever the prize was, square:, It is a fine thing when such a weapon with telling effect in case of emergency. the women who are teaching the At any rate our school organization of this rural work owes THE WINNING OF Than to claim the joy of a far-off goal children of the state are outraged it to these courageous girls that their lives and persons shall be and nearly killed in the performance And the cheers of the standers-by, safe from the diabolic acts of any half crazed degenerate who may of their duties. BARBARA WORTH be at large. And to know down deep in your inmost soul "While not advocating violence, life imprisonment is too A cheat you must live and die. NIP THAT EPIDEMIC IN THE BUD. good for a man like that. He is ii" The Strongest Book Play a menace to society so long as Last week began the epidemics in Koochiching county A In a Decade. he lives. And personally, I doubt Beautiful Scenery and a teacher wrote in to the county health officer saying there were if he is ever brought in alive. I Who wins by trick can take the prize, Powerful Cast two or three cases of measles in the village of feel sure, though, that he will be And at first may think it sweet, captured." M—. Another wrote that mumps was spreading Traces were found in the rear in the village of R—. So our old friend, the epidemic, NOT A PICTURE SHOW But many a day in the future lies of an outhouse near the little is here on time among the childrep of this school where the man had lain When he'll wish' he had met defeat. county. in waiting all day. He had piled That word, "epidemic," makes people hysterical. For the man who lost shall be glad at heart a barricade of cordwood about It works harm and injury to a community. himself and evidently believed no And walk with his head up high, Whatever the disease that is epidemic, it is an A PHONOGRAPH one had seen him. enemy of the children. The word means, "upon, While his conqueror knows he iqust play the part Two small children had seen FOR EVERY HOME or among the people," and is used 6f certain diseases him, however, but did not tell Of a cheat and a living lie. which spread in any place where there is their story until the next day. V. Swlnnerton. M. X. They hadn't paid a great deal of a colony or more of people EDISON attention, although frightened As a they don't just There is no excuse for epidemics. rule drop at the time. The matter fled from sky a of "Great oaks Out of a clear blue upon number children. The prize seems fair when the fight is on, Diamond their minds when school resumed from So There is usually V10 epidemic little acorns grow." do epidemics. AMBEROLA a few minutes later. But save it is truly won at one case of measles, scarlet first. Th'e beginning is probably Attending physicians say they fever, or smallpox. $30.0#—$50.00—$75.00 •You will hate the thing when the crowds are gone, believe Miss Dahl will recover How then can an epidemic grow from one case of these diseases? unless septic poisoning from the For it stands a false deed done. Because someone responsible neglects his duty. Don't forget Edison wounds sets in. that and blame Providence, the weather, dust in th air, and And it's better you never should reach your goal "The girl has a wonderful constitution," the hundred and one things people like to blame for these things. declared one of the Blue Amberol 4 minute Than ever success to buy The FIRST CASE neglected by officials with a definitely defined surgeons *ton}ght. "After remaining Records- duty to perform is usually the cause of epidemics. tied up all night, she was attacked, At the price of knowing down in your soul shot, and left for -dead. 50c—75c—$1.00 Take an example. A case of scarlet fever starts in the township-of That your glory is all a lie. The searchers found"her a few Q—. The parents know it and the neighbors learn of it. hours later. She had'been bleeding Someone tells the chairman of the town board. He and the members —Edward A. Guest. constantly. They carried her C. N. WIRT, Agent 'of the town board have been told by the county health officer three to her home and summoned a International Falls, Minn. times at least that it is their duty to call a physician, appoint him doctor from Blackduck. He made their health officer by the year. Have him investigate this first an examination and said there ii: S-S- 1 S- "•d"' A. 1 a -aMr* -r fe m§* Sarins, ti&<S